Madeleine Henry > Quotes

“Alice’s question in Wonderland, “How long is forever?” and the White Rabbit’s response, “Sometimes, just one second.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Everything Sophie read was delicious, electric mental sugar, feeding a high. She felt as if she were learning a new language: the wordless way that the world communicated. All she had to do was pay attention. (page 28)”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Disaster unites families, not excess.”
― Madeleine Henry, Blackout

“But we grow up and start to see things the way we expect. We stop questioning, listening, but I think the universe is always talking to us: through symbols, our guts, or feelings we can't explain.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Isabel had seen it happen to geniuses at her own high school, at Yale, and at NASA. Their talent for problem-solving brought them attention, and to some, that felt like love. So they threw themselves into their careers, leading more and more solitary lives, and taking on bigger and bigger professional challenges until--on the other side of that breakthrough--there was no one waiting for them to come back home. The love they had poured into their work, expecting it to boomerang back, never came back.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“The least understood, most important thing in the world is love.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“You're more aware than other people, but what you're feeling is the same. That's the way you've always been. Other people feel what you're going through; you just experience it...more.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“The best parts of life come from being connected.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“Jane Austen’s Persuasion, from the penultimate chapter. I can almost see it on the page, carrying a whole novel’s worth of anticipation: “I am half agony, half hope. Tell me that I am not too late.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“School only trains your mind, and that's such a small part of who you are...You're so much more. Your heart and soul, Sophie. We need to nourish the whole you as much as your brain.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“It Burns When IP’?” Richard laughs. “I wish. We’re ‘I Believe Wi Can Fi.”
― Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

“That there's something about weakness we all respond to. Imperfection, flaws. Across animals.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“You can’t be tormented by someone unless you’re a little desperate for them to love you.”
― Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

“When you're balanced, people look down on you. You get judged when you care about relationships as much as work. Nobody says that, but you can tell. It's not something that people here really respect.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“I ask for some examples.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Claire devoted herself to the idea that everyone is the star of a multigenerational love story. That everyone has someone, an all-forgiving and permanent home for their soul. Even more fantastically, she thought other people might care about this idea too.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“The most valuable insight of my life has been that the best use of time is to love. It's not a sophisticated idea, and that's exactly the point. People overvalue intellect. Life should be lived from the heart ... So, whenever I have the choice, I should spend my time with other people. Even if that means I leave less of a mark on the world at large.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“In undergrad, I started to care more about my relationship--well, one in particular--and people thought I wasn't reaching my potential. I never liked how that was framed, as if it's a trade-off between love and work. Love enhances everything.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“A lot of people think science is sterile ... and heartless and boring, but not me. I've always had this feeling that there are eyes in everything that the world is alive down to the atom. But we grow up and start to see things the way we expect. We stop questioning, listening, but I think the universe is always talking to us: through symbols, our guts, or feelings we can't explain. I want to know as much as I can, especially about the big building blocks of reality.”
― Madeleine Henry, The Love Proof

“He has a relentless sense of belonging, even in places he’s never been before.”
― Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

“Our Hatred for Yale Outweighs Our Apathy for Football.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“I don’t think he would ever leave me, but with too many explosive fights, there could be lasting wounds.”
― Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

“What am I avoiding with this obsession?”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“fish, leaving pink sprays on the horizon. I’m leaning forward”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Maybe it’s easier to be known superficially by millions than it is to be known very well by one.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“relationships grow as a function of time spent”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“Whenever she sobers up, she avoids the places and people that used to trigger her. She claims to love the peace and quiet, the chance to start over. Sometimes, she even starts to draw.”
― Madeleine Henry, Name Not Taken

“novel is something that a writer lives with, something that receives their full attention for thousands of hours.”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing

“running off in the dead of night . . .” I hear other”
― Madeleine Henry, My Favorite Terrible Thing